DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up TXT Error

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My domain is: iamclouds.com

I ran this command:

sudo ./certbot-auto certonly --manual --preferred-challenges dns

It produced this output:
Please deploy a DNS TXT record under the name
_acme-challenge.oam01.iamclouds.com with the following value:

GncyZs8matAlfoKLDscOcyWfUvBd5GNceOnHa9t0CzI

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Failed authorization procedure. oam01.iamclouds.com (dns-01): urn:ietf:params:acme:error:dns :: DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up TXT for _acme-challenge.oam01.iamclouds.com

After I added TXT value into Godday for my domain DNS, I got this error.

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Failed authorization procedure. oam01.iamclouds.com (dns-01): urn:ietf:params:acme:error:dns :: DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up TXT for _acme-challenge.oam01.iamclouds.com

IMPORTANT NOTES:

  • The following errors were reported by the server:

    Domain: oam01.iamclouds.com
    Type: None
    Detail: DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up TXT for
    _acme-challenge.oam01.iamclouds.com

My web server is (include version):

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.10 (Santiago)

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know):
Yes

I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel):
No

You entered the TXT record incorrectly at GoDaddy: https://letsdebug.net/oam01.iamclouds.com/6767

Try again, but this time, just use _acme-challenge.oam01 rather than typing in your entire domain. That should solve your problem.

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Thanks a lot! It works now!

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